Is it normal to have been this Ill recently?

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DD is almost 4. She's been in childcare for 2.5 years & yet this has been the worst winter so far. We have had just in the last 6 weeks, the flu, 2 stomach bugs, a cold & a cough. I'm exhausted as a single parent & feeling emotional at the fact winter is still not yet over. She's eating & drinking but I just can't believe how poorly she's been over the last few weeks. Anyone else feeling the strain? I give her multi Vits & liquid Vit D, make sure her hands are washed the minute we get in from being out, I don't know if there's anything else I can do, it just feels relentless.

If I'm the only one I think I may cry

You’re not! im in same position with my 6year old and feel in near constant state of panic over why she keeps getting I’ll. since November we have had:
strep A
scarlet fever
norovirus
tonsillitis again
2 coughs with temps
1 cold

like you I’m single and find nights when she’s poorly very lonely to manage on my own ☹️I’ve tried vitamins, more sleep, nearly obsessive levels of handwashing…you name it ☹️☹️You are not alone 💐

Mine has been really ill too. Not just you. Hope it gets better for you soon.

@wobblymum1 @BakeOffRewatch sorry to hear you've also been gifted with the continuous plague but selfishly I feel a lot better knowing it's not just us. Honestly never known a winter like it so far. I keep telling myself 'this too shall pass', but the moment it does we are just given some other illness!

Got similar here. 12yr old. Cold/ virus/strep/cold/ now a chronic cough. Never ends

4 year old also, worst winter for illness

I remember those days. It sounds normal. I remember my dd missing about 22 days of reception - not in a row, just continual illness after illness.

I thought it was just my family! My 13 year old, is currently off school with her second bout of covid since November. We have also had flu and colds .

I've got it with my 18yo. She's on her second cold this term.

Solidarity OP. My 4 year old is bringing cough after cold after stomach bug home from preschool. It started around September. I'm hoping it will ease off after winter.

@WhiskersPete it's just crazy. DD was sick lots on Friday morning, perked up, Saturday it becomes apparent she had a cough, a hacking one, now a cold (leith it (she got rid of the last cold not even a week ago) she had a temp on Saturday which went without medication, now it's back & she's off her food. It's just crazy, there's no gaps at all.

@colourblock my child has been ill on and off since November. Throat infections (several) colds , coughs . Was just recovering from another infection and now he has a tummy bug ! My anxiety is through the roof 😫

Same here for my ds 10! He's had an awful winter which seems worse sometimes because he's normally pretty healthy.

We've had three bouts of sickness (checked out the third with a doctor because it happened pretty much 3 out of 4 weekends) who said something about stomach migraines 🤷‍♀️

Had a week off school with tonsillitis

Had diarrhoea a few weeks ago

Had a cough/cold just before Christmas and is struggling again now with another.

Missed so much school which he loves and I'm beginning to worry about why he's getting so poorly all the time.

Kids and adults have all been so much worse than normal this winter.

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Yes! And one roles into the other. She was on the sofa all day Sunday with a fever and tummy ache and this morning she's woken with a cough! Not sure where one bug end and another starts. She's also passing it all on to 10 week old sister.

I think it's due to the first winter properly out of lock down. Hopefully it won't be as bad next year.

I don’t even have young kids at home but this winter I’ve had the “real flu”, and then a cold , prolonged strep throat / tonsillitis that then went into a chest infection and wheezing ( on an inhaler and I don’t even have a history of Asthma) 2 weeks later. Each time maybe feeling better for 2/3 days then ill again, I’m rattling with medication. I worked all through Covid full time, due to my type of job, so it isn’t even due to not seeing other people for a long time. This winter really sucks.

Bloody hell that’s ridiculous!! We appear to have gotten off lightly judging by this thread. I’m not surprised you’re fed up with it OP.

@DamnAllTheJellyfish did the Doc elaborate about stomach migraines? Sounds similar to what has happened here with the sickness happening so close together! Hope he is better soon.

Colourblock he just said he'd seen a lot of it in kids lately and that it is kind of the equivalent of an adult migraine but without the pain in the head and sickness instead.

It was odd because it was happening at pretty much the same time (4am on Monday morning) each week.

He did have a habit of watching YouTube on his Alexa in bed the night before for an hour which we put a stop to thankfully hasn't happened since but have no idea if that is a coincidence or not.

Feel so sorry for these kids, their Immunity really has taken a knocking lately.

@DamnAllTheJellyfish That's interesting to know.. did he say there was anything to do or when to be concerned?

I guess for the you get ones it's their first winter in child care where there's no isolating, restrictions etc because I think even this time last year there were some in place still.

I have been shocked at the pace of these illnesses & how they just do not seem to stop.